American Hospital Functional Medicine Department offers an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach to health services
A lifestyle program is formulated for each individual with a predictive, preventative, and personalized treatment plan in a holistic manner.
Functional Medicine determines how and why illnesses occur and restore health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual.
The Functional Medicine model is an individualized, patient-centered, science-based approach that encourages patients and practitioners to work together to address the underlying causes of diseases and promote optimal wellness. A detailed understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors are required for this process to create customized treatment plans that invariably lead to improved patient outcomes.
Comparatively speaking Functional Medicine, at its essence, embodies a more holistic approach. Functional Medicine practitioners spend more time with their patients, listening to their histories, and studying their interactions including genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can positively influence long-term health issues including complex, chronic diseases. At the end of each detailed analysis, customized long-term plans concerning health and vitality are created for each individual.
Nutrition is the main focus of Functional Medicine and is naturally the no 1 priority for maintaining a healthy life. Consequences of our eating habits can be encountered in almost all life-long health problems. By adjusting our diets, we can either transform our biology and subsequently our psychology in a positive sense, or alternatively, we can cause unwanted additional health problems. Studies and results on this subject are surprising and promising not only for healthy living but also for the treatment of serious diseases.
Lifestyle is an important area that is considered in detail in the Functional Medicine approach and constitutes a significant part of the treatment. Studies that show lifestyle changes having an important effect on people’s healthy lives are becoming increasingly numerous and prominent.